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A previous proposal to make July 27, the Vietnamese War Invalids and Martyrs' Day, a public holiday did not enthuse the NA delegates, so Dao Ngoc Dung, Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, chose to exclude the option and proposed that the current number of public holidays be kept as it is. But since several delegates have expressed their support for an additional public holiday, the NA’s Standing Committee is presenting two options for delegates to vote on: to keep the number of public holidays as it is, or to add one extra holiday on June 28, the Vietnamese Family Day, said Nguyen Thuy Anh, head of the parliamentary Social Affairs Committee. Delegate Nguyen Anh Tri, former director of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, supported the second option, saying an extra holiday was an opportunity that families need to get together. Tran Van Tien, a delegate of the northern province of Vinh Phuc, agreed with the addition of public holidays and … [Read more...] about Lawmakers support one more public holiday

After reaching a consensus with the People’s Committee of Tay Ninh Province, the HCM City People’s Committee has petitioned the PM and Ministry of Transport for permission to call for investment for the HCM City-Moc Bai Expressway project. The HCM City – Moc Bai Expressway is expected to improve economic development in Tay Ninh Province. — Photo tphcm.chinhphu.vn The expressway, which will be nearly 53.5 kilometres long, will link Ring Road No 3 in HCM City’s Hoc Mon District with Moc Bai, an international border gate between Vietnam and Cambodia in the southeastern province of Tay Ninh. The expressway project will be divided into two investment phases under Public-Private Partnership and Build-Operate-Transfer models, according to a statement from the HCM City People’s Committee issued earlier this week. In the first phase, the entire expressway will be built with four lanes. The total capital for the phase is expected to be nearly … [Read more...] about HCM City seeks investment for HCM City-Moc Bai Expressway project

More than 20 years since she was found abandoned on a street in northern Vietnam, a Vietnamese woman is still looking for help to find her biological parents. “Who am I? Why am I adopted? Who are my biological parents?” These are questions Nguyen Thi Thu Huong, an adoptee in Belgium, has been asking herself over the last two decades. She has recently sent these questions, plus her story, in a letter to 'Helping Vietnamese Adoptees Trace Their Roots,' a program jointly run by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper and Kids Without Borders to help Vietnamese who are adoptees in countries around the world find their biological parents. ‘I want to know what has happened’ Nguyen Thi Thu Huong knew about her life through a record issued in 1995 by the administration of Hong Hai Ward in Ha Long, a coastal city of the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh. It is a written record by local authorities of when, where and how Huong was found 24 years ago. “Around … [Read more...] about Vietnamese adoptees seek help to trace their root